COVID-19: Cases and Deaths by Latitude

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   March 22, 2020

   Barclay Brown

   Here’s my vote: weather. Flu is more prevalent in winter as explained at https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/qa/why-is-the-flu-more-common-in-the-winter. Now look at the map at https://www.aerisweather.com/blog/2019/03/28/temperature-map-goes-global/ — third map down; see the pretty blue band across the globe?

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   March 23, 2020

   Angie Donelson

   So it’s interesting that nearly all data is reported in the global north, not the global south – places where data tends to exist for all kinds of global indicators already. The south lacks data for most things, and it looks like Russia has some kind of data blackout.

   As I’ve been talking to my doctor missionary friends in Kenya on the front lines of the epidemic, most people just aren’t getting tested or reporting where they’ve traveled. People can’t afford to change their patterns of behavior since they live so close to the economic margins. My parents have noted people in Nogales, MX are conducting business as usual without precautions because it’s a matter of whether people will survive day to day…so maybe global south countries just can’t afford to report real data?

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